Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention — Paperback

The First Evidence-Based Clinical Guide to Identifying and Intervening in Parental Alienation.

Parental alienation is one of the most complex and contested challenges facing mental health professionals, family lawyers, and the courts today. Recognizing it is hard. Knowing when and how to intervene is harder. Until now, practitioners have had little to guide them.

Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention by Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson, and Marcus Turnbull is the first book of its kind — a comprehensive, scientifically grounded resource that equips practitioners with the tools to identify parental alienation and implement evidence-based interventions from both legal and therapeutic standpoints.

Divided into six parts and illustrated with contemporary case examples from male and female perspectives, cutting-edge research, practitioner-client dialogues, and practitioners' reflections, this landmark text brings clarity to one of the most difficult realities in family practice.

What This Book Covers

• What parental alienation is, how it develops, and what causes it
• How parental alienation affects each family member as a mental health concern and form of family violence
• How to assess and identify parental alienation in clinical and legal settings
• Evidence-based intervention strategies from therapy and family law perspectives
• A gender-neutral approach with case examples from both male and female perspectives
• Multidisciplinary frameworks integrating psychology, family therapy, social work, and family law

About the Authors

Janet Haines is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience in private clinical practice and as a single expert for the Family Law Court of Australia. Mandy Matthewson is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Tasmania and Chair of the Parental Alienation Study Group's Research Committee. Marcus Turnbull is a senior family law partner, independent children's lawyer, and Chair of the Family Law Practitioners' Association of Tasmania.

Who This Book Is For

Mental health professionals, clinical psychologists, counsellors, family therapists, social workers, child and family psychologists, postgraduate students, family lawyers, and mediators.

Book Details

• Authors: Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson, Marcus Turnbull
• Pages: 372
• Format: Paperback, Illustrated
• Dimensions: 6.9 x 9.5 x 0.80 IN
• Publication Date: October 2, 2019
• ISBN/Barcode: 9780367312947

Knowledge for the mind. Grace for the soul.